Mechanism of selective growth of carbon nanotubes on SiO2/Si patterns

Nano Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 561-564

  Jung, Yung Joon ^a   Wei, Bingqing ^a   Vajtai, Robert ^a   Ajayan, Pulickel M ^a   Homma, Yoshikazu ^b   Prabhakaran, Kuniyil ^b   Ogino, Toshio ^b  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Kashino Diverse Brain Research Laboratory of NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICON; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; NANOPARTICLE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 0041812992     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl034075n     Document Type: Article

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